Show Business: Rock Reporter Rivera

Geraldo Rivera thinks big. "I went into news knowing I wanted to be more
than a local newsman standing in front of a burning building talking
about the number of firemen being treated for smoke inhalation," he
says. Thirty-year-old Rivera has now been in the news business exactly
three years and eight months as a reporter for New York City's WABC
Eyewitness News. During that time, the former Brooklyn street-gang
leader, merchant seaman, dry-goods salesman and poverty lawyer has won
five Emmys, 74 other awards, and a $100,000-a-year salary. He has just
started his own network show, Good-Night, America, a...